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The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down. — A. Whitney Brown
That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are… — Polybius
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record,… — Will Durant
History is what we read, write and think about the past. — Michael Howard
If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter. — Mark Twain
In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn… — Alvin Toffler
No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you… — Paulo Coelho
It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music. — Ralph Vaughan Williams
Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones. — Leonardo da Vinci
I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads… — George Russell
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me. — Branford Marsalis
Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz. — Charles Mingus
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing. — John Philip Sousa
Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests.… — John Ruskin
The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made. — Aristide Briand
I write poetry in order to live more fully. — Judith Rodriguez
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't write poetry on the computer. — Quentin Tarantino
Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters. — E E Cummings
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average. — Derek Walcott

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